Department of Physics & Astronomy | Faculty of Science

GWPI PhD candidate awarded Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship

Passante, Gina
University of Waterloo
Selected by NSERC for her researach proposal 'Quantum discord and its effect on quantum computation'; see: Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships website

the 2009 CAP/DCMMP Brockhouse Medal

is awarded to Michel Gingras, 'for his seminal contributions to the statistical mechanics description of random disordered systems and geometrically frustrated magnetic systems'.
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Physics Colloquium

Hsiao-Wen Chen, from the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics at the University of Chicago, will be giving the talk Gamma-ray Burst Afterglows as New Probes of the Universe Thursday at 4:00p in PHY 150.
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International Year of Astronomy

Thank you to all participants for making the Perseid Meteor Shower and Star Gazing event a tremendous success. Of course, the weather cooperated nicely, allowing lots of meteors to be seen, a very good view of Jupiter and a beautiful moon for those who stayed late enough.

A special thanks to the KW-Royal Astronomical Society, whose collaboration was invaluable.